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For a friend I'm trying to repair a RAID5 array, consisting of 3 2TB disks. After working perfectly for quite some time, the computer (running Debian) suddenly wouldn't boot anymore and got stuck at a ...

I'm going to be building a media server soon and I want to know how hard it would be to rebuild an array in the event of an ssd failure. Here's what I'm doing. I'm going to have a 128GB SSD boot drive ...

Yesterday I've had the bad idea to try to follow this tutorial :
http://fds-team.de/cms/articles/2013-12/use-a-real-windows-7-partition-in-virtualbox-kvm-vmware-player-u.html
these are the commands ...

I am setting up a new set of drives on a CentOS 7 installation (10x1TB), however am seeing something annoying during the build process.
When I attempt to build the array, it is immediately recognised ...

I have a server with openSUSE 13.1 on a single HDD (500 GB WD).
The server has information on it and its working properly.
Can i create a software RAID1 inserting a second 500 GB WD HDD?
How can this ...

I had RAID5 array of three disks with no spares. There was a power out, and on reboot, the array failed to come back up. In fact, it the /dev/md127 device disappeared entirely, and was replaced by an ...

I'm very new to Linux, being mainly a Windows 7 user, so I may not understand Linux-specific commands without explanation.
I've decided to build a NAS running some form of Linux (probably FreeBSD or ...

I wan't to create a RAID5 array at home, the OS is Linux (Kernel 3.15.7) and the array will be created with mdadm. I wan't to create the array with eigth or ten 1TB discs.
Let's assume a single drive ...

I had a system running with fake RAID (Intel controller, imsm), which had some problems.
Now I'm switching to the regular MD soft-RAID - I created a RAID 1 on /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1. Seems to work ...

I've been searching for hours and giving up / too scared to delete all my data. I have a file server running CentOS 6.5 which has 4 WD RED 2TB drives (all > 1 year old) in software raid 5 with mdadm, ...

I am about to reinitialise my (SW) raid array.
Previously the array was raid5 with 4 disks. I've removed one disk in order to install a new additional (larger) drive.
What I'd ideally like to do is ...

I just upgraded my box to 14.04 and on bootup I got a message, that my RAID devices can't be mounted automatically so I chose to skip it and work through it after boot time. Now booted up, A mount -a ...

I created a software RAID 5 array one year ago using mdadm v3.2.x which shipped from CentOS 6.3, after few months, I moved/assembled the array to/in Fedora 19 (now Fedora 20).
It had three 3TB disks ...

I want to create an inexpensive self-hosted private git server with redundant storage. To that end I have bought a Raspberry Pi and configured both git and ssh on the Pi. I can access the Pi both from ...

How is it ensured that Linux software-RAID superblock(for example version 1.2) can be created at 4KiB from the beginning of the drive? According to manual of mdadm it is. I mean isn't there a hazard ...

I have 4 2.5" 7.2k drives lying about and I'd like to build some RAID arrays for a bit of VM storage on my KVM lab box.
There are 2x 320GB drives and 2x 500GB drives. I'm looking to create a RAID 10 ...

I have 4x 3TB WD RED disks that are in mdadm RAID5, which should total an array size of 9TB usable space, however I only have 6TB.
I have confirmed all disks are in the array, the only strange thing ...

I want to add another disk as RAID 1 to test my database performance. I am trying to not re-do the whole system, is it possible?
Currently I have a single 1TB HDD with one 100GB system partition (and ...

I recently moved from a hardware RAID1 enclosure to using two eSATA drives with md. Everything seems to be working fine, except for the fact that directory traversals/listings sometimes crawl (on the ...

I am a fairly new systems administrator and I have to configure the RAID on a Linux machine. From my understanding so far, RAID is an array of multiple disks. I have some questions though.
Question ...

I run a Windows Server 2008 machine. It is used as a file server (File Services feature), in addition to local shares I use CrushFTP for SFTP and HTTP access to my files. I would like to convert to ...